There are a lot of people these days willing to make money and foward industrializtion with little respect towards the enviroment and ecology. Please share stories of conservation happening in your area.

Hello fellow TU members and Endorsed Business partners, it's almost time for the 2015 TU Western Regional Meeting in Jackson, WY and we're planning a great event. If you're still thinking about it, there's still time to register for the event for all the activities and explore the fishing... [ READ MORE... ]

The theologian, Martin Luther, was alleged to have said, “Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback. Prop him up on one side, and he falls off the other.” Luther’s words ring true when it comes to the people who want to build a massive open-pit gold mine in the headwaters of the world’s most... [ READ MORE... ]

Bisbee Tour: Elizabeth Russell and Jason Willis (TU), Tom Calhoun, Mike Stewart, and Jordan Sisson (Freeport).
By Elizabeth Russell
I first visited Bisbee, Arizona, in 1995 while working as a park ranger at a nearby National Monument. I made the 75-mile trek across the vast desert landscape in... [ READ MORE... ]

TU's California State Director, Brian Johnson, discusses the new California Coastal Coho and Steelhead Coalition at the Spring 2015 Gala.
By Sam Davidson
TU’s spring 2015 Gala dinner in San Francisco was the setting for the unofficial launch of the California Coastal Coho and Steelhead Coalition... [ READ MORE... ]

Fly fishing in the Tongass National Forest. Photo: Paula Dobbyn
by Cindy Shogun
Last week, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testified before the Senate Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee to discuss the 2016 Forest Service budget request. And in the midst of back-and... [ READ MORE... ]

By Wayne Richey
Most fly fishers know that good habitat for trout and salmon translates into good fishing. At FlyAssortments.com, we know that, too. That’s why we’ve teamed up with Trout Unlimited to help the nation’s oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization make fishing... [ READ MORE... ]

By Zach CockrumSenate Budget Resolutions are funny things, especially to those of us who'd rather be parked in a boat on the Potomac eagerly awaiting the first signs of the spring shad run. The resolution itself sets funding levels for the government, but they are often not binding unless... [ READ MORE... ]

By Helen Neville and Dan Dauwalter
When TU staff consider who might be valuable partners in our conservation work, we typically think of state fish and wildlife agencies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, or the U.S. Forest Service, to name a few. We certainly don’t... [ READ MORE... ]

By Corey Fisher
The issues that fall under the purview of the U.S. Department of the Interior are as varied geographically as they are in subject matter. From oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico to wilderness management in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and from Atlantic salmon recovery... [ READ MORE... ]

By Chris Hunt
Years ago, when I was gathering content for a fly fishing guide book about eastern Idaho's small waters, I found myself on a tiny lilypad-esconsed pond at the edge of Yellowstone's Pitchstone Plateau. The little lake, just outside the park in Idaho, was accessible via a 4-by-4 truck,... [ READ MORE... ]